15th World Congress of Jewish Studies – Jewish Genealogy

The Institute sponsored a panel on Jewish Genealogy at the Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, organised by the World Union of Jewish Studies (WUJS) in Jerusalem on August 2-6, 2009.

This precedent-setting event was part of the Institute’s effort to have Jewish Genealogy recognised as a sub-branch of Jewish Studies.

The moderator was Prof. Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University), who observed that this was the first time that a panel wholly devoted to Jewish genealogy had ever been held at a WUJS Congress. He hoped that it would be followed by many more.